Category: Column

Fubara: Is half-bread better than none?

  By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058   “Last Thursday was a day of missed feelings for me – day of joy and day of mourning!” “The...

The healing power of true friendship

By Hassan Gimba I have been under the weather for the past six weeks – a period during which I have not gone to my office. Though being visible almost always...

Useni’s Fight for London House from the Grave Shames Us

By Azu Ishiekwene In the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two ordinary Nigerians from unlikely...

*Dangote and his two wives*

  By Funke Egbemode   A man married two wives. To maintain fairness, he set up a roster to guide who shared his bed and when. Since they were only two, he made...

Oga Yellow, see your boys” and The Israeli Licence

By Hassan Gimba About two weeks ago, Nigeria lost one of its finest police officers who rose to the peak of its Police Force. Solomon Arase died at a relatively young...

*Obi in Lagos? A Cultural Misstep*

  By Idowu Ephraim Faleye Kingship is not something anyone wakes up and claims. It is not like politics where anybody can contest, campaign, or declare ambition....

Obi of Lagos: Provocation taken too far

  Lagos,indeed people of Yoruba,South West Nigeria were once again taken by surprise about the arrest in Lagos Wednesday September 10,of Engineer Chibuike Azubike...

A visit to the Olunloyo’s at Ibadan…

  By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpit@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The Olunloyo family of Ibadan needs no elaborate introduction. Who does not know Dr. Victor Omololu Sowemimo...

Intimate Affairs: Are women stronger in bed?,

by Funke Egbemode It all started with an ambitious shopping list of a woman looking for a husband that my friend sent to me. The single and searching woman wanted a man...

Corruption: Are we really looking in the right direction

Corruption: Are we really looking in the right direction? By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 “Two traditional rulers and their Oloris, not Fulani...